As many as fifty students whose merit was next to the cut off marks in the 2012 Common Entrance Test and had secured above 90 percent marks in class 12 examination would be paid Rs 50,000 each as token compensation.
This was ordered by special anti-corruption judge Kashmir Yash Paul Bourney who Wednesday delivered a landmark judgment convicting former Board of Professional Entrance Examination chairman Mushtaq Peer and several others for selling question papers of the Test.
The court said the compensation amount will realised from the fine Peer and other convicts have been ordered to pay.
Four prosecution witnesses in the cash-for-paper scam— Aijaz Ahmad Wani, Feroz Ahmad Mir, Jagdish Kumar Gupta and Manzoor Ahmad Ganai—who had resiled from their statements will be asked to explain why they should not be tried for fabricating evidence.
Importantly, the court said that the investigating agency has not looked beyond the first 50 candidates in the CET-2012 selection list when they should have examined the entire list, especially after noticing the fraud.
“They have also been found lacking in much wanton seriousness in the investigation of the incident of CET-2013 with solid clues available to them pointing towards serious lapses on the part of the chairman and controller of the Board. It needs no reiteration that selective application of the process of law against a few and leaving others is equally dangerous as it only gives birth to a feeling of hatred instead of respect for the law,” the court said.